Senior Payroll Officer in Newcastle upon Tyne

On behalf of NHS Business Services Authority, we are looking for a Senior Payroll Officer (Inside IR35) for a 6-month contract based in Hybrid - Newcastle. The NHS Business Services Authority is an Arm’s Length Body of the Department of Health and Social Care, responsible for providing platforms and delivering services that support the priorities of the NHS, Government, and local health economies. Over £100 billion of NHS spend flows through our systems annually.

Our purpose is to deliver business service excellence to the NHS to help people live longer, healthier lives. Our vision is to be the provider of national, at-scale business services for the health and social care system, transforming and delivering these services to maximise efficiency and meet customer expectations.

As a Senior Payroll Officer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Schedule, process, and produce monthly staff payrolls, BACS payments, and General Ledger (GL) files.
• Manage high volumes of complex and sensitive payroll data within tight deadlines.
• Check and reconcile team inputs, manual payments, and pay corrections.
• Reconcile payments and process deductions to third parties and statutory bodies (e.g., HMRC).
• Accurately compile monthly tax and NI liabilities, adjusting for statutory payments.
• Maintain current knowledge of ESR and legislative changes; train staff accordingly.
• Handle payroll and pension queries from staff and external agencies, ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Act.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of PAYE legislation to ensure payroll accuracy and compliance; act as a subject matter expert and resource for junior colleagues.
• Demonstrate the ability to hit the ground running by applying prior experience and legislative knowledge to support efficient team operations from the outset.
• Validate and manage daily pension payroll processes per scheduled timelines.
• Ensure BACS payments are accurate and all necessary adjustments are made.
• Log and track issues with Compendia systems.
• Confident with manual gross to net calculations.
• Candidate must be experienced with PAYE, taxable benefits, salary sacrifice legislation.
• Candidate must be proficient in Excel and data analysis.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not overseas.

Disability Confident: As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, NHS Business Services Authority guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases of high volume of candidates with a disability meeting all criteria, the best candidates will be shortlisted for interview. This scheme encourages candidates with disabilities and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria during shortlisting, which may include holding active security clearance.

NHS Business Services Authority also guarantees to interview veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria. In high volumes of such candidates, the best will be shortlisted, and the desirable criteria may be considered, including security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge that this role falls within the scope of the Off-Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. The rates of pay quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to taxes and statutory costs. Payment to intermediaries and your income from this contract will differ accordingly.